A little wanting song

One Australian summer, two very different sixteen-year-old girls--Charlie, a talented but shy musician, and Rose, a confident student longing to escape her tiny town--are drawn into an unexpected friendship, as told in their alternating voices.

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Main Author: Crowley, Cath
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2010], c2005
Edition:1st American ed.
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Summary:One Australian summer, two very different sixteen-year-old girls--Charlie, a talented but shy musician, and Rose, a confident student longing to escape her tiny town--are drawn into an unexpected friendship, as told in their alternating voices.
Item Description:"Originally published in different form in Australia by Pan Macmillan Australia in 2005 under the title Chasing Charlie Duskin"--T.p. verso.
Physical Description:265 p. ; 22 cm.
Audience:014-017.
ISBN:9780375860966 (trade hardcover : alk. paper)
0375860967 (trade hardcover : alk. paper)
9780375960963 (library binding : alk. paper)
0375960961 (library binding : alk. paper)
Author Notes:Cath Crowley is a freelance writer, manuscript assessor and teacher. Her work is published in Australia and internationally. She is the author of The Grace Faltrain trilogy {{The Life and Times of Gracie Faltrain, Gracie Faltrain Takes Control, and Gracie Faltrain Gets it Right (Finally)}}, Chasing Charlie Duskin, Graffiti Moon, and Words in Deep Blue. She won the 2017 Indie Book Award in the Young Adult category for her novel Words in Deep Blue, she also won the 2017 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Young Adult Fiction. She is the co-author, along with Fiona Wood and Simmone Howell, of Take Three Girls, which won the won the 2018 Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Award, Older Readers.

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